Battery "F" 1st Michigan Light Artillery Regiment

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Battery "F" 1st Michigan Light Artillery Regiment
Michigan state flag
ActiveJanuary 9, 1862 to July 1, 1865
CountryUnited States
AllegianceUnion
BranchArtillery
EngagementsBattle of Nashville

The Battery "F" 1st Michigan Light Artillery Regiment was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service[edit]

Battery "F" was organized at Detroit and Coldwater, Michigan and mustered into service on January 9, 1862.

The battery was mustered out on July 1, 1865.

Total strength and casualties[edit]

Over its existence, the battery carried a total of 246 men on its muster rolls.[1]

The battery lost 1 officer and 9 enlisted men killed in action or mortally wounded and 23 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 33 fatalities.[2]

Commanders[edit]

  • Captain John S. Andrews[3]
  • Captain Byron D. Paddock

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-07-04. Retrieved 2007-07-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Michigan in the Civil War website, retrieved June 3, 2007)
  2. ^ http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unmiarty.htm The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959. Retrieved June 19, 2007.
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-08-08. Retrieved 2007-07-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Michigan in the Civil War website, retrieved June 3, 2007)

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